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Above is the map of how far Queendom Website has traveled,
nice for MacSoph and me, but doubly nice because it shows that needlework is indeed alive and well right round the world.
My World of Needlework
Thursday, Feb 6
I finished the stitching on my Queen at 9:35 a.m. I still have the pearls, jewels and beads but after 167 Tally Days, I reached my first goal.
A Reminder
If you are new to my designs, please read about my instructions and the reason I package them the way I do.
Scroll down to lower yellow navigation bar and click on
INSTRUCTIONS.
Jane Austen and Needlework
As soon as I finish shipping my Wait List sale I will post a deadline for checking kis and reporting mistakes if any.
I am shipping packages from my Wait List Sale now and should finish by March 20 or 21. Please check everything in your packages and report any mistakes to me straightaway.
Want to know how I am currently whiling away
my hours, see
News& Views
I am busy shipping my Wait List SALE. I should finish this coming week and will post when I finish.
This morning another photo of a tiny pincushion from the era of Jane Austen, this one a rectangle not carved but painted with a gold design. From a far different source, this came from India, likely imported to Regency England. by the East India Co. The same age as the first three.
Give me a chance to write instructions and ship my sale and I will bring back my Pride and Prejudice Needle Book to honor Jane Austen. This year is the 250th anniversary of her birth. She was born December 16, 1775.
I also have whitework and needlework tools from Jane Austen's Regency era and soon as I have time I will post photos of some of them. They are, if I do say so, stunning tools!
All I need is a little time.
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There is a lovely issue of Piecework Magazine, this time all about Regency Needlework from the era of and associated with Jane Austen. WELL worth collecting the issue!
I plan to post some whitework samples and some needlework tool photos that Jane Austen might have used, I just need to finish mailing my recent sale first.
Tiny pincushions from Regency England, a tulip, a lyre and a heart, carved by hand out of cow bone and so delicate it is difficult to believe that they survived all these years. The tulip is just over 1" wide. Look at the slender 'strings on the lyre: how did they survive the carving.
These are often attributed to prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars and some of this is true, but soon others made them too. These are over 200 years ol.
These little tools for needlewomen came from a different and distant era, long long ago, most of them now over 200 years old.
Among other notations, it was an era when pins were handmade in 3 parts, expensive and cared for, hence many pincushions saving and protecting them.
This morning I switch gears a bit: here is a whitework handkerchief from the era of Jane Austen. Handkerchiefs of that era were noted for their very large size. While the whitework is small, if you look carefully at the detail you will see that it is very intricate in style and in that way it reflects the delicate details of the needlework tools as well. 20 or 30 years later designs became much more ornate as you will see in a mid-19th century handkerchief tomorrow morning.
